Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Sepia Saturday 204 : 23 November 2013

Friday, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. The 22 November 1963 is one of those dates where big history and small history collide : a date on which anyone alive at the time is supposed to be able to remember what they were doing when they heard the news. Other such dates would include events like Pearl Harbour or the subject of our theme image for Sepia Saturday 204 - the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. There are a variety of interpretation for the prompt : perhaps a photograph of what you were doing on that day in 1963, perhaps an important event in your life which will always act as a historical marker, perhaps a collection of strange and wonderful hats. Whatever your interpretation, post your post on or around Saturday 22 November 2013 and then link it to the list below.

Here is the usual preview of the next two Sepia Saturdays down the line:

205 : This week brings us to the end of November or, as it has become known in much of the world, Movember. Once again it is time to celebrate bearded ladies, moustachioed men, trophies or silly swimming suits.

206 : Aprons our our theme for this week. Ladies in aprons, men in aprons, airports with aprons.

That is for the future. For Sepia Saturday 204 just look out for those momentous moments, the moments where big history and small history collide.

I thought I was first again but ScotSue has beaten me too it. I wasn't born when Kennedy was shot and Princess Diana's death was more relevant to me, but I've written about something which happened in Christchurch instead!

I've been collecting family stories about JFK this week and have written 2 posts - with one more still to write. I'm going to link them all, so I may be on your "bad" list for this week. I'm sure I'm already on it because I participated last week and haven't gotten round to read and comment on every one yet. Next week I'll not have a brain for writing, so maybe I can read when my head is clear enough - but it is also a holiday - yikes!

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.